United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon released a report today on the global AIDS epidemic outlining the progress against the pandemic to date and calling on all stakeholders to endorse the report’s recommendations and use them to work towards six global targets by 2015:

Reduce by 50 percent the sexual transmission of HIV – including among key populations, such as young people, men who have sex with men, and in the context of sex work – and prevent all new HIV infections as a result of injecting drug use

Eliminate HIV transmission from mother to child

Reduce tuberculosis deaths by 50 percent in people living with HIV

Ensure HIV treatment for 13 million people

Reduce the number of countries with HIV-related restrictions on entry, stay and residence by 50 percent

Ensure equal access to education for children orphaned and made vulnerable by AIDS